Word: gudger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will go on!'' (Adds Mrs. Keyes: "Thank God it has gone on for Genevieve Walsh Gudger!") Mrs. Warren G. Harding was a dear friend; Mrs. Keyes once wrote her up, like this: "Mrs. Harding herself looked like the embodiment of a fairyland vision in white velvet and diamonds...
...Altman took the monster to Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and laid it on the desk of Ichthyologist Eugene Willis Gudger. Dr. Gudger had never seen such a thing before but he is versed in old and curious lore, knew instantly what it was. It was, he told Mr. Altman, a "Jenny Haniver." Dr. Gudger photographed the thing, began a systematic collation of data on Jenny Hanivers, ancient and modern, which last week he published in the June Scientific Monthly...
...human effect is heightened when beads are inserted in the nostrils and the tissue artfully mutilated. The pectoral fins can be cut away from the head and moulded into a headdress resembling a bishop's mitre. The ventral fins can be distorted to resemble feet. Neither Dr. Gudger nor an Australian colleague investigating the same subject could learn the origin of the term "Jenny Haniver" which appears in no standard dictionary...
...teacher's life certificate. Encouraged, he entered the University of Wisconsin, graduated LL.B. in 1884, took up the practice of law. In 1889 he married Elinor C. McClements of Chicago, who before her death in 1917 gave him one daughter, Genevieve Arlisle (wife of Capt. Emmet C. Gudger, U. S. N.). When Walsh and wife migrated West, he sought clients among the freeland settlers, first in Redfield, S. Dak., then in the copper country around Helena, Mont., where he established a reputation handling suits against mining companies. In 1906 he was defeated for the House of Representatives...